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Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Return to Devil's End (1993)

Four of the cast of the 1971 Doctor Who story The Daemons plus director Christopher Barry, return to the picturesque village of Aldbourne for a reunion and discuss this classic story.

Highly recommended if you are a fan of Jon Pertwee era Doctor Who. Pertwee, Nick Courtney, Richard Franklin, balmy John Levene and Barry all clearly had a blast making this.

Also in this three disc set is the new drama White Witch of Devil's End (2017) in which Damaris Hayman reprises her role of white witch Olive Hawthorne from The Daemons.

It's six episodes long (I've watched four) and is told story teller style by Hawthorne. Think Christopher Lee's Ghost Stories for Christmas series and you won't be far out, but these tales have more additional filmed footage as well.

In truth i don't actually like the character of Olive Hawthorne, i never have done, i've always felt Hayman sounded just too stuck up for her own good, but she's not too bad here and a couple of the stories (Run for twenty minutes each by the way) have a delightfully creepy atmosphere.

My favourite role of hers has always been the old woman in One Foot in the Grave who's selling her husband's new shoes because "he's just died". Victor goes round and finds his corpse still wearing them!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Karen Gillan who played Amy Pond, the eleventh Doctor's companion from 2010 to 2013, shows off her own Character Options 5" action figure.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Coming soon from Big Finish!

Sontarans, Magnus Greel, Ogrons, Yeti and Drashigs. Wow!

If only this were a teaser for the next tv series.

[Susan Foreman]

£7.99 each

A bargain if ever there was one!

[Demoncrat]

Arc Of Infinity

A story that I've watched a lot by default (it being the second DW vhs I bought), it's sliightly let down by two particular sequences cough Matrix , but I quite like it as a whole. Colin Baker swanking about in the background an added bonus

[Susan Foreman]

Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

The Hand Of Fear – Part 1

(In another part of space, on Earth, in Cromhall Quarry, Wotton under Edge, Gloucestershire, the quarrymen are getting ready to detonate a part of the quarry face. The siren wails as wires are attached to each other and the dynamite, and the detonator cable is played out. Then the Tardis materialises and the The Doctor steps out. The final wires are stripped and fastened to the detonator pack. Sarah leaves the Tardis, wearing an Andy Pandy pair of dungarees.)
Sarah: Oh. Listen, I don't want to make any snap decisions, but this isn't South Croydon.
The Doctor: What? I can't hear you for the siren.
Sarah: This isn't South Croydon!
The Doctor: All right, there's no need to shout. Hold this. (He gives her his coat.) Now watch.
(The Doctor bowls a stone at a large rock, knocking it over. They walk on.)
Sarah: Good for you.
The Doctor: Is it nice in South Croydon?
Sarah: What? It's a paradise compared to this dump. I bet we're not even on Earth.
The Doctor: Well, maybe the season hasn't started yet.
Sarah: What?
The Doctor: Do you have a season in South Croydon?
Sarah: Come on, where are we?
The Doctor: We're in a quarry.

The Hand Of Fear – Part 2

The Doctor: Sarah, listen to me.
[Fission room]
Sarah: No, there's nothing more to say because Eldrad must live.
[Nunton Control centre]
Watson: What did she say?
The Doctor: Shush, shush, shush.
Sarah [OC]: Eldrad must live.
Man [OC]: Eldrad must live.
The Doctor: Who is Eldrad, Sarah?
Watson: Some assassin, no doubt.
The Doctor: Shush.
Jackson: Yes.
The Doctor: Sarah, who is Eldrad? What does he want?
[Fission room]
Woman [OC]: Eldrad must live. Eldrad the creator, the saviour.
The Doctor [OC]: Sarah, what does he want?
Woman [OC]: Eldrad must live.
Sarah: Eldrad must live.
[Nunton Control centre]
The Doctor: Sarah. Keep her talking. I'm going in there.
Watson: But how can you? All those door locks are jammed.
The Doctor: Look, the plans to your cooling duct.
Jackson: But the temperature inside the cooling duct is over two hundred degrees centigrade.
Watson: You'll roast, man.
The Doctor: Not if I'm quick.

The Hand Of Fear – Part 3

The Doctor: Excuse me, I don't want to pry, but could you tell us how you got here?
Sarah: We found your hand in a quarry.
Eldrad: I was betrayed. They tried to obliterate me. Now I must return to avenge myself.
The Doctor: What? After all this time?
Eldrad: Explain!
The Doctor: Well, you've been on Earth a hundred and fifty million years, and you've lain dormant all that time.
(Eldrad does another mind scan of The Doctor.)
Sarah: Leave him alone. He's telling you the truth!
Eldrad: You are a Time Lord. I have heard of you and the role you play in time and space.
(This time, The Doctor gently falls sideways to the floor. Sarah catches him.)
The Doctor: You didn't need to do that. I would have told you.
Eldrad: Unfortunately, Doctor, I have learned to trust no one. I need your help.
Sarah: Our help? Oh, you must be
The Doctor: Shush.
Eldrad: As a Time Lord, you are pledged to uphold the Laws of Time and to prevent alien aggression.
The Doctor: Only when such aggression is deemed to threaten the indigenous population. I think that's how it goes.
Eldrad: Then you must help me in my struggle.

The Hand Of Fear – Part 4

Sarah: Oh, I must be mad. I'm sick of being cold and wet, and hypnotised left right and centre. I'm sick of being shot at, savaged by bug-eyed monsters, never knowing if I'm coming or going or been.
The Doctor: Zeus plug.
Sarah: Oh, I want a bath. I want my hair washed. I just want to feel human again.
The Doctor: Forget the zeus plug. I'll have the sonic screwdriver.
Sarah: Oh, and boy am I sick of that sonic screwdriver! I'm going to pack my goodies and I'm going home. I said, I'm going to pack my goodies and I am going home! Right! Excuse me!
(Sarah storms out of the console room.)
The Doctor: What was that you? I don't know why she goes on like this. There's really nothing the matter at all. (The Doctor gets a mental wave.) The call. The call from Gallifrey. Gallifrey. After all this time, Gallifrey. I can't take Sarah to Gallifrey. Must get her back home. Must reset the coordinates. South Croydon.
(Sarah enters carrying a bag and a pile of stuff including a plant in a pot, a stuffed toy owl and a tennis racquet.)
Sarah: Ahem!
The Doctor: You're a good girl, Sarah.
Sarah: Oh, look, it's too late apologising now. Everything's packed. I've got to go.
The Doctor: What? How did you know?
Sarah: What?
The Doctor: I've had the call from Gallifrey.
Sarah: So?
The Doctor: So I can't take you with me. You've got to go.
Sarah: Oh, come on. I can't miss Gallifrey. Look, I was only joking. I didn't mean it. Hey. Hey, you're not going to regenerate again, are you?
The Doctor: Not this time. I don't know what's going to happen.
Sarah: You're playing one of your jokes on me, just trying to make me stay.
The Doctor: No. I've received the call, and as a Time Lord I must obey.
Sarah: Alone?
The Doctor: Yes.
(The Tardis materialises.)
Sarah: And I'll give your love to Harry and the Brigadier. Oh, and I can tell Professor Watson that you're all right.
The Doctor: We've landed, Sarah.
Sarah: What?
The Doctor: We've landed.
Sarah: Where?
The Doctor: South Croydon. Hillview Road, to be exact.
Sarah: That's my home. Well, I'll be off then. Here.
(She gives him his coat back.)
The Doctor: Thanks.
Sarah: Don't forget me.
The Doctor: Oh, Sarah. Don't you forget me.
Sarah: Bye, Doctor. You know, travel does broaden the mind.
The Doctor: Yes. Till we meet again, Sarah.
(Sarah leaves.)
[Stokefield Close]
(The Tardis dematerialises. Sarah looks around.)
Sarah: This isn't Hillview Road. I bet it isn't even South Croydon. Oh. He blew it. (She speaks to a dog who is sunbathing on the pavement.) Hey, hey. You. He blew it.
(The dog runs off. Sarah walks away whistling 'Daddy wouldn't buy me a bow-wow'.)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Clayton Hickman's artwork for the Big Finish play The Chimes of Midnight (2002).

Starring Paul McGann as the Doctor and India Fisher as companion Charley Pollard, this story has been broadcast on Radio 4Extra in 2005, 2006 and 2007.

[Susan Foreman]

Carole Ann Ford featured in 'Fabulous Magazine' - May 1964

[Susan Foreman]

Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

The Deadly Assassin – Part 1

Engin: The Tribunal chose, in view of the extenuating circumstances, to impose a lenient sentence.
Spandrell: What?
Engin: (louder) The Tribunal chose
Spandrell: What sentence?
Engin: Oh, I beg your pardon. Banishment to Earth.
Spandrell: Earth?
Engin: Sol Three, in Mutter's Spiral. Rather an interesting little planet, I understand. Several of our
Spandrell: Is there anything further of relevance I should know, Coordinator Engin?
Engin: I see there is an addendum. Ah, yes. The sentence was subsequently remitted at the intercession of the CIA.
Spandrell: Celestial Intervention Agency. They get their fingers into everything. Is he mixed up with them?
Engin: There's nothing further on the file.
Spandrell: Oh yes, they'd see to it that there wouldn't be. Can you get me his extract biog?
Engin: Yes, certainly. Won't take a moment.

The Deadly Assassin – Part 2

Hildred: You will confess, Doctor.
The Doctor: All right. All right, I'll confess.
Hildred: Very sensible.
The Doctor: I confess you're a bigger idiot than I thought you were. Argh.
Hildred: There are fifteen intensity levels in this device, Doctor. At the moment, you're only experiencing level nine. Much easier to talk.
The Doctor: I've got nothing to say.
Hildred: Oh, you'll think of something, soon.
(Hildred turns up the intensity.)
The Doctor: Tweedledum.
Spandrell: Turn it off.
(Hildred obeys.)
The Doctor: Tweedledee.
Spandrell: I must apologise for my subordinate. He lets his enthusiasm run away with him.
The Doctor: I see. The hot and cold technique.
Spandrell: We are simply seekers of the truth, and we haven't got much time. Chancellor Goth has ordered your immediate trial.
The Doctor: I'd like to help you. How about a signed confession?
Spandrell: That will help. I hate going to court without possessing the full facts. Motive, for instance.
The Doctor: Now that's a sensible question. Why should anyone want to assassinate a retiring President?
Spandrell: A personal grudge?
The Doctor: I never met him.
Spandrell: I know. I have seen your biog.
The Doctor: And you still think I did it?
Spandrell: I think you're going to be executed for it. They are preparing the vaporisation chamber now. You have about three hours to live, Doctor.
The Doctor: What? Well, that's monstrous. Vaporisation without representation is against the constitution.
Spandrell: You are an embarrassment.
The Doctor: You realise I've been framed, don't you.
Spandrell: Framed?
The Doctor: Yes, framed. It's an Earth expression. It means that someone's gone to a great deal of trouble to get me into this mess.

The Deadly Assassin – Part 3

The Doctor: I deny this reality. The reality is a computation matrix.
(The quarry walls flex then turn into circuit boards. A dizzying vortex fills the Doctor's mind and he collapses. Under the burning sun, vultures circle. When the Doctor wakes, two eyes appear in the quarry wall.)
Figure [OC]: I am the creator here, Doctor. This is my world. There is no escape for you.

The Deadly Assassin – Part 4

Spandrell: It seems clear how it happened. The Master tried to trap the Doctor in the APC net by overloading the neuron fields. Then he collapsed and died, leaving Chancellor Goth still connected into the circuit.
Borusa: Natural causes?
Spandrell: Yes, sir. His body was extremely emaciated. He had come to the end of his regeneration cycle.
Borusa: No.
The Doctor: No what, Cardinal?
Borusa: The story is not acceptable. This is a very difficult, very delicate position. We must adjust the truth.
Engin: In what way, Cardinal?
Borusa: In a way that will maintain public confidence in the Time Lords and their leadership. How many people have seen this Master since his death?
Spandrell: Apart from ourselves, Hildred and the two guards who took the body to the Panopticon vault.
Borusa: Then we shall rely on their silence. We shall change the appearance of the corpse, Castellan. We all know the posthumous effect of a staser bolt. Within the hour, the body will be charred beyond recognition. Our story is going to be that the Master arrived in Gallifrey to assassinate the President, secretly. Before he could escape, Chancellor Goth tracked him down and killed him, unfortunately perishing himself in the exchange of fire. Now that's much better. I can believe that.
Engin: You're making Goth into a hero?
Borusa: If heroes don't exist, it is necessary to invent them. Good for public morale.
Engin: And the The Doctor's part in all this?
Borusa: Best forgotten. Of course, Doctor, the charge against you will be dropped.
The Doctor: How kind.
Borusa: Conditional on your leaving Gallifrey tonight.
The Doctor: Somehow, Cardinal, I don't want to stay.
Borusa: Good. I believe you know something of the Master's past.
The Doctor: We've bumped into each other from time to time.
Borusa: Then before you leave, you can assist Coordinator Engin to compile a new biog of him. It doesn't have to be entirely accurate.
The Doctor: Like Time Lord history.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

A promo image taken in Paris for the 1979 story City of Death featuring Lalla Ward as Romana and Tom Baker as the Doctor.